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Two young Africans from different social backgrounds want to defy tradition and be free to love each other.

Four popular songs with animated backgrounds, sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet: Oh Susanna, with a short cartoon sequence of two couples in a square dance, Carry On, Short'nin Bread, and Pack Up Your Troubles.

Two frogs are stuck together. One of them will experience hell.

A hungry rabbit tries everything, to pull a big carrot out of the ground.

Produced as part of the National Film Board’s Five Feminist Minutes, this collaborative work between Gwendolyn and fellow sex trade workers is an examination of police harassment, safe sex education and sex worker’s rights. Well received by the public and the critics, the film also won the award for Best First Short Film at La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes in April 1991.

An utterly charming zen mix of animating and hands-on music.

Remember Tim Burton’s homage to Vincent Price, "Vincent"? 30 years later, Canadian animator Ken Turner returns the favor in this cute stop motion tribute...

Video Painting Series

A lonely three-year-old pulls out a chunk of his dad's beard, plants it in the garden, and grows a new best friend.

In 1800s Romania, a migrating shepherd loses a lamb drawn into the woods. As he searches for it, he encounters a divine, supernatural being in his own image.

Two women struggle to openly love each other.

A woman sends a voice memo to a friend about the unexpected upheavals of her transition to motherhood. Matrescence blends visual exploration with scientific insight to examine the neurological, identity and cellular transformations that occur during pregnancy. A bold, intimate short film that illuminates the immense power of this journey.

It is springtime in Nunavut. A young girl has the power to turn into a long-tailed jaeger, an Arctic seabird. She comes and goes from her human life to her animal life, but as time passes, she finds herself living as a human less and less.

A quest to recreate childhood memories of cotton blowing, a disappearing craft.

Performances of two contemporary dancers are juxtaposed and reassembled in a frame by frame investigation, probing the self-perception of attraction and repulsion.

Bottle Rocket has a gig tonight, but it seems like all the attention is on the band they're supposed to open for. Will they be able to get over the fact that they're not as popular as they thought they were?

A distraught teddy bear searches a carnival for someone he misses but can’t quite remember, guided by the helpful moon and a deceitful star. Adapted from Robert. W. Chambers’ “The Prophets’ Paradise.”

Alyss runs bare, exposed to the environment and affected by its surrounding elements. Their exhausting journey becomes a pretext to reflect on a quest for personal authenticity.

After a recent break up, Bug’s ex-girlfriend June calls to come pick up the rest of her stuff from their apartment. This triggers Bug to spiral, as we follow their desperate attempt at keeping their past alive by creating a massive dungball of the items June left behind.

In a Victorian town where disease has taken over, it is decided to burn the sick in order to purge it.

Mycelium invites you to a journey into an imaginary and psychedelic world where nothing makes sense. Follow the adventure of a mushroom through all sorts of fairy tale references that were part of our childhood.

Three strange cats, having a good old medieval time! A tapestry full of silly and absurd moments, inspired by the fascinating world of animals in medieval art. A tribute to the colorful way characters are depicted in old manuscripts, in all their perfect imperfection.

A bounty hunter chases after their target somewhere in the West.

The Manyoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, was compiled over twelve centuries ago. This film portrays the elegant world of these poems as visual art using court music, traditional pictorial scrolls, Ukiyo-e, Nishiki-e, and animation.

Desires of the unconscious mind.

A cold-blooded contract killer known only as Deadsight executes without hesitation in order to clear his criminal record.

Following the abrupt chase and murder of a young girl, a cryptic message unfolds inside her abandoned dictionary book.

Before there was time… When everything that is, has been, and will ever be was compressed into a single point… The Universe slept, and dreamt of creating itself. In this esoteric visual poem, a cosmic being known as THE ENTITY experiences the birth, life, and death of a primordial, psychedelic universe.

Set in a mythical grain elevator church in small-town Saskatchewan, Jo, a semi-closeted teen, gets possessed right before their older brother's re-baptism. New worlds, spirits and orders collide as a divine spirit guides Jo in the overturning of a corrupt priest.

In a dystopian world, two characters flee from the authorities across the rooftops of a city, carrying a bag whose contents are a mystery.

The graceful cadence of a waltz with the frenetic rhythms of contemporary life.

In a snowy forest, during a traditional hare hunt, an intrepid warrior comes face to face with a mysterious creature that stands between her and her prey.

On a sunny day, enjoying burgers and swimming seemed perfect for young Seb... until a dreadful stomach ache turned everything upside down.

A small town bowling team watch a bowling animation, showing the life of a depressed bowling pin named Jerald.

In a world in which reflections lead their own lives behind mirrors, the slightest mistake at work is unforgivable.

A Dadaist adventure in a world of drawings in which two doodles unexpectedly meet a guru, swim in the river of pastel and live in the moment through the pages of a notebook.

A dying star painted on scrap 35mm black and white film.

Slides from of my parents wedding reveal another time when they are so young. Using animation, I attempt to save them from a very difficult future.

The pages of a brutal manga comic book are are animated to explore issues of identity, masculinity, and misogyny.

Images drawn from the New York Public Library are used to resurrect the visual aura of a lost time based on the documents that were once deemed worthy of archiving.

Using chlorophyll printing, hand-drawn and digitally assembled animation frames printed on to beds of leaves.

The art of singing about love with a guitar and cardboard.

Chickens are idiots.

"Mutt and Jeff meet Felix in a battle for the letter "U". Using old black and white cartoons and contact-printed 35 mm film that I scratched on, I combined the three elements into a primordial soup." Rick Raxlen

An athletic fish escapes from a sushi restaurant, angering the grumpy and violent chef.

We discover the horrifying truth behind the natural urges of a vampire and realize he is not that different from us.

Created to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of NFB filmmaker Norman McLaren. The film's unique colours and textures were created through the process of soaking the film in a variety of concoctions and then baking it in the oven.

A painter who is ambitious to make a masterpiece gets into a slump because his eagerness becomes an obsession.

A dark film that explores images of survival, reproduction and death.

Fairytale-like images of fire and night and shapes that seem to come alive.

Experimental animation remembering a trans hawker from Lim’s childhood in Singapore.

Usagi and Yosuke are students at the same school and secretly love each other. What they don't know is that they are part of opposing street gangs who are on a mission to eliminate the other.

A woman is preyed upon by her own frenzy to monopolise. An urge to die infiltrates the carousel of her thoughts but she succeeds in harnessing the power of her emotions to achieve her ends.